My boss at a later job heartily agreed with you, Shmuel. Not coïncidentally, I liked him a lot :).
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. -C S Lewis, _Christian Behavior_ */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 15:38 That sounds like a hostile working environment. The people doing a code review should know the language and the local standards; nit sounds like they knew neither. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Bob Bridges <00000587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 12:37 PM To rant on a related subject, I once worked at a company that instituted code reviews; a new program would be gone over by a half-dozen coworkers to be sure it adhered to local standards. This sort of thing is always painful to the coder, and nevertheless (I admit reluctantly) can have considerable value if done right. One problem I had with it, though, is that the standards we created for ourselves admitted that there are times when exceptions should be made for special cases, and yet when those cases arose no exceptions were ever allowed; the team invariably flinched, leaned back in their seats and said "no, that's not according to our standards". One particular example always rankled: Whenever someone felt the need to use a STRING or UNSTRING command (I should have said we were COBOL developers), the team always struck it down on the grounds that STRING and UNSTRING are unusual commands and some COBOL coders would be unfamiliar with it. My contention here is that that's absolutely true, and it's the job of the COBOL coder to ~learn~ the STRING and UNSTRING statements, as tools of his profession. I never persuaded anyone to that view, though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
